Hmmm, I agree, silly. Were you pumping helium into the bag? (That works, apparently!)
And are you Peter H. himself? I played a half set in B once - great pipes!
Thanks Mr.Lee for throwing in my (5 palmi long) gran Zampogna, but Ted Anderson has a 6 palmi, matched by Brad Angus’ neighbor____ , who has now ordered an 8 palmi (palmi= one streched out hand span from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger). When that arrives from Italy, I’ll slip to 3rd place and Ted will be 2nd place for largest Zampogna on the west coast. I don’t care, mine is more portable! When it comes to pipes in general,
“Lower is Better” for most listeners, and the pipers who play those sets…I love the story about Wally Charm asking Kevin Reitman why he didn’t he get a"B" set, like all the other pipers, instead of the B flat Angus multi reg set? The reply from Kevin was that the B sets were way too shrill ! That funny crack is one for the book…Good on you Kevin!
LONG AND DEEP SEAN FOLSOM
yahh, B is like fingernails on the chalkboard…
Hearing Willie Clancy on the 2nd Pipering LP was some of the first pipes I heard, the first four cuts are Willie playing a 18 1/2" Moloney chanter, with Sean Reid playing the drones. It always stuck with me, that and Leo Rowsome playing a Bb Coyne set on the Drones and Chanters. Those are still some of my favorite tracks ever. I’d love to hear more of Leo playing that set - what a sound! Maybe Garech de Brun has something tucked away…
“______”, eh? He’s taller than Ted, I think, you guys could line up for a good photo, like a police lineup! “No. 3, let’s hear that Tarantella. Turn to the left…”
Since the F-E stretch is often the more troublesome one, perhaps two Siccama keys would be required. Seems workable anyhow - but there’s a much more pedestrian limitation, in that yer typical Myford ML7 (aka pipemakers’ special) can’t manage more than about 20" between centres, and it’s very difficult to step-drill or bore the foot under those conditions. IIRC Ronan’s G chanter is made in two parts, with a joint between the top and bottom hands like a flute, for that reason.
An interesting side-effect is that you might be able to keep both the reed resonance and acoustic tonehole cutoff frequency high enough to allow better harmonics in the far-upper register, possibly making the third octave more achievable.
Bill
I used to own a Bb by Brad Angus. I LOVED that FAT sound. But my hands could not handle the strech for the E. I can play a B just fine, but that extra strech for the Bb did me in. When I went to play my D chanter it felt as if I was holding a twig. Despite the pain I really miss that chanter.
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- Jason
I just heard a set pitched in A on liveireland.com…wonderful sound.
Hmm, details? You’ve got our curiousity up now 
Where on liveireland.com? Was it in the middle of some long live stream, or what?
Bill
I’ll second this.
Sorry, can’t remember, I just heard some uilleann pipes and tried to play the tune with my whistles, and only the A did it, so it had to be an A set …
I’ll note down the song name and artist the next time I hear it and report back in here